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Depressed   /dɪprˈɛst/   Listen
Depressed

adjective
1.
Lower than previously.  Synonym: down.  "Prices are down"
2.
Flattened downward as if pressed from above or flattened along the dorsal and ventral surfaces.
3.
Filled with melancholy and despondency.  Synonyms: blue, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low, low-spirited.  "Gloomy predictions" , "A gloomy silence" , "Took a grim view of the economy" , "The darkening mood" , "Lonely and blue in a strange city" , "Depressed by the loss of his job" , "A dispirited and resigned expression on her face" , "Downcast after his defeat" , "Feeling discouraged and downhearted"


Depress

verb
(past & past part. depressed; pres. part. depressing)
1.
Lower someone's spirits; make downhearted.  Synonyms: cast down, deject, demoralise, demoralize, dismay, dispirit, get down.  "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her"
2.
Lower (prices or markets).
3.
Cause to drop or sink.  Synonym: lower.
4.
Press down.  Synonym: press down.
5.
Lessen the activity or force of.



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"Depressed" Quotes from Famous Books



... the girls suddenly discovered that they must pack up their table-cloth and remove all traces of the feast unless they wished the bright light of morning to discover them. They rose hastily, sighing and slightly depressed now that their fun was over. The white table-cloth, no longer very white, was packed into the basket, the ginger-beer bottles placed on top of it and the lid fastened down. Not a crumb of the feast remained; Rover had demolished the bones and ...
— A World of Girls - The Story of a School • L. T. Meade
... encountered difficulties that would have disheartened a less courageous host. With the limited means at hand it seemed impossible to entertain in a manner befitting the dignity of the editor of "The Opp Eagle." But Mr. Opp, though sorely perplexed, was not depressed, for beneath the disturbed surface of his thoughts there ran an undercurrent of pure joy. It caused him to make strange, unnatural sounds in his throat which he meant for song; it made him stop every now and then in his work to glance tenderly and reminiscently at the palm of his right ...
— Mr. Opp • Alice Hegan Rice
... young graduating soldiers one who seemed depressed and out of touch with the triumphant blare of militarism, for he alone of his fellow classmen had there no kith nor kin to bid him ...
— Philip Dru: Administrator • Edward Mandell House
... place, answering advertisements the next day, but met with no luck. He was feeling rather depressed when Chester ...
— Chester Rand - or The New Path to Fortune • Horatio Alger, Jr
... While in Bangor I made my headquarters at his office, and was much benefited and strengthened by coming in contact with him. Days and weeks passed, and I did not taste liquor, although at times, when depressed and tired from over-work, I found it difficult in the extreme to resist the cravings of ...
— Fifteen Years in Hell • Luther Benson


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